Saskatchewan couple takes wedding photos near tornado

Wedding photos don’t usually feature storm clouds, but an adventurous couple from Davidson, Sask., broke that rule for some spectacular shots in front of a tornado. The photos show the newlyweds on a gravel road that stretches into the horizon as a twister looms ominously in the dark prairie sky behind them.

The photos have been shared thousands of times after Saskatoon photographer Colleen Niska posted them on her Facebook page early Sunday. “Pretty sure this will only happen once in my lifetime!” she wrote.

(Colleen Niska photography)

Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter Andrea Hill tracked down the bride, who said she was “blown away” by the reaction online. She said the weather had been perfect on the wedding day — until it came time for the photos. As the couple drove outside Davidson the sky turned dark and a funnel cloud appeared, which Niska said would be a rare chance to take some truly memorable photos.

“If anything I was probably a little bit leery about it, but the photographer was super excited and so was my husband so we got out,” the bride, Chandra, said. “It was pretty windy, I had to hold my hair back for most of the pictures but we were able to stand, so it wasn’t that crazy.”